Safety carriage-pole and neck-yoke.



N0. 710,50l. Patented Oct. 7, I902. M. MGNUTT.

SAFETY CARRIAGE PDLE AND'N'ECK YOKE.

(Application filed. Jan. 10, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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MAXIVELL MONUTT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SAFETY CARRIAGE-POLE AND NECK-YOKE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 710,501, dated October 7, 1902.

Application filed January 10, 1902. Serial No. 89,158. (No model) To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAXWELL MoNUTr, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Carriageloles and Neck-Yokes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved safety carriage-pole and neck-yoke, the object of my invention being to provide a construction thereof which will give increased safety to the occupants of the carriage in case of breakage of the tugs or whiifletrees and which will absolutely prevent the neck-yoke separating from the pole of the carriage if one pair of tugs or the corresponding singletree breaks.

A further object is to provide a construction for this purpose which will be simple, inexpensive, and easily assembled, inconspicuous, presenting substantially no difference in appearance from the constructions now generally in use.

Myinvention,therefore,resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts for the above ends hereinafter fully specified, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved carriagepole and the neck-yoke thereon. Fig. 2 is a front view of my improved neck-yoke detached on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the pole-tip on a still larger scale. Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of my improved neck-yoke leather. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the iron plate of said leather detached therefrom, and Fig. 6 is a section on the line A A of Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a carriage-pole of the ordinary construction, having on the front end thereof the pole-tip 2. Said pole-tip has formed thereon in the usual manner the flange 3 for backing the carriage, and in front of said flange it has formed on its under side the elongated lug 4.

5 represents the neck-yoke, having secured thereon the neck-yoke leather 6. This is formed ofa single piece of leather bent around at its middle portion to form a loop or eye 7, encircling the neck-yoke 5, its terminal portions 8 being brought opposite to each other and having secured between them the iron plate 9. Said terminal portions 8 of the leather and said plate 9 have formed therethrough apertures 10, all of the same shape and registering with each other, each aperture being in general of a circular form and of a size to fit around the pole-tip between the lug and the flange, but having also on the side thereof extending toward the loop or eye an extension of sufficient depth to pass under the downwardly-extending lug 4 on the poletip 2. The edges of the two terminal portions of the leather behind the edges of the iron plate 9 are secured together by lines of stitching 12. Thus the iron plate 9 is completely hidden from sight, while yet assisting by its rigidity and strength in preventing the leather being pulled forward past the lug 4.

It will readily be seen that the neck-yoke can be secured upon the pole by passing the same backward thereon, with the neck-yoke under the pole-tip and so that the extension 11 of the hole in the neckyoke leather is in alinement with the lug 4. Then as the neckyoke is passed backward the lug will readily pass through said extension 11. When the neck-yoke has been passed behind the lug in this manner, it is given half a revolution about the pole, which brings said neck-yoke to a transverse position above the pole, and

in this position the neck-yoke is evidently 86-.

curely locked against removal from the pole by the abutment of the lug 4 against the ring portion 8 of the leather.

This construction is inexpensive and the parts are easily assembled. At the same time it affords greater security to the occupants of the carriage. \Vith neck-yokes as at present constructed and in use if the tugs break the neck-yoke can slip forward from the pole, which thereupon drops to the ground, the effect of which may be to upsetthe vehicle or to injure the occupants by striking them with the pole. Also with present constructions the neck-yoke can separate from the pole, even when only one pair of tugs or one singletree breaks, the result being that the horse thus released goes in front of the other horse, tending to upset the vehicle. With my improved construction these dangers are avoided.

I claim- In a device of the character described, the

combination of a pole having a lug on the under side thereof, and a neck-yoke having a leather secured thereon, said leather being formed of a single piece, bent around at its middle portion to form a loop encircling the neck-yoke, its terminal portions-being brought opposite to each other and having secured between them an iron plate, said terminal portions of leather and said plate having formed therethrough apertures all of the same shape and registering with each other, each aperture being of a size to fit around the pole-tip between the lug and the flange and having also on the side thereof extending to- HGSSQS.

MAXWELL MCNUTT. YVitnesses:

FRANCES M. WVRIGHT, B. GORFINKEL. 

